Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1892 — VERY MUCH DEAD. [ARTICLE]

VERY MUCH DEAD.

Fhatls What Is the Trouble With the Silver Bill The Present House, it I* Conceded on All Sides, Cannot Pass a Silver Bill. The stiver question is an issue of the past so far as the House of Representatives is concerned. The developments of Monday clearly Indicate that the all-pow-srful degree of cloture will not be invoked by the committee on rules to assist the free coinage people in forcing a final vote »n the passage of the bill, and without inch a decree all the resources of parliamentary law will be powerless to resurrect the bill from the cemetery of unfinished business to which it has now been consigned. The silver bill has been almost the only topic of conversation in the lobbies of both legislative branches of the Government the past few days. In the House the interjstwasthe greater, fdr in that body the measure now hangs in chancery with a Democratic majority always afile, atwilT, io take it from the calendar and force it to a final vote.

In the Senate hardly less interest was felt because on .the action of the House lepends entirely the question of whether 1 silver bill will ever reach the Senate for joncurrence. Then, too, there are in the U. S. Senate no less than seven distinguished gentlemen of the two parties ire just now being prominently mentioned throughout the nation as possible presiiential candidates, and there is an impression abroad that all of these gentlemen will contemplate with fortitude any interposition of a refractory minority of the House to prevent this question ever reaching the U. S. Senate. It was not until the House had met and passed to the consideration of uninteresting routine business that Speaker Crisp finally announced Monday that the committee on rules would not deem it proper to report a rule preventing filibustering ind forcing a vote unless a majority of the Democratic members should sign a petition iemanding an arbitrary procedure. Mr. Bland was quite indignant, and in listed upon a rule, but the speaker was ibdiirate and seemed to he supported by most of his Democratic colleagues. Mr. Bland, it may be stated, is mad, and Speaker Crisp is the one particular member he blames for the failure of the bill tharging him with double dealing.